compute $ \iiint_Kxyz\ dxdydz$

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The question is: $$ \iiint_Kxyz\ dxdydz\quad k:=\{(x,y,z):x^2+y^2+z^2\leq1, \ \ x^2+y^2\leq z^2\leq 3(x^2+y^2), \ x,y,z\geq 0\} $$

Here how i have tried to solve this: $$\iint_{x^2+y^2\leq1}\int_{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}^{\sqrt{3(x^2+y^2)}}xyz \ dz\ dxdy=\frac{1}{2}\iint xy\left(3(x^2+y^2)-(x^2+y^2)\right)=...=0$$ But the answer that i got is zero which is obviously wrong what is wrong with my solution? any suggestion would be great, Thanks

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Basically we are trying to find the volume of the sphere $x^2+y^2+z^2 \leq 1$ between two cones $z^2 = x^2 + y^2$ and $z^2 = 3(x^2+y^2)$.

So the bounds are much easier to set up in spherical coordinates.

$x = \rho \cos \theta \sin \phi, y = \rho \sin \theta \sin \phi, z = \rho \cos \phi$

$0 \leq \rho \leq 1, 0 \leq \theta \leq \frac{\pi}{2}$ are obvious as we are in first octant and radius of the sphere is $1$.

Now to find the bounds of $\phi$, we observe that

$x^2 + y^2 \leq z^2 \leq 3(x^2+y^2)$

plugging in $x,y,z$, $ \frac{1}{\sqrt3} \leq \tan \phi \leq 1 \implies \frac{\pi}{6} \leq \phi \leq \frac{\pi}{4}$

$xyz = \rho^3 \cos\theta \sin \theta \sin^2\phi \cos\phi$

So the integral becomes,

$\displaystyle \int_{0}^{\pi/2} \int_{\pi/6}^{\pi/4} \int_0^1 \rho^5 \cos\theta \sin \theta \sin^3\phi \cos\phi \ d\rho \ d\phi \ d\theta$

I did not do the integral by hand but WolframAlpha shows the result as $\displaystyle \frac{1}{256}$.